Arne Duncan

Managing Partner at Emerson Collective; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Bill Gates

Co-Founder of Microsoft; Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

William Powers

Best-Selling Author of Hamlet's BlackBerry

James Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State

Joseph Nye

Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (1977-1979)

David Kelley

Founder of IDEO & Author of "Creative Confidence"

Austan Goolsbee

Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Peter Walker

Founder and Partner, PWP Landscape Architecture; Landscape Architect, National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Sandy Speicher

Education Lead, IDEO

Karl Wendt

Doctoral Student, Harvard University

Ted Mitchell

President of the American Council on Education, Former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Nicholas Burns

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Dalia Mogahed

President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC; Author, "Who Speaks for Islam?"

Wendy Kopp

CEO of Teach For All & Founder of Teach For America; Childhood Education Advocate

Paul Ewald

After years of studying illness from the germs' point of view, microbiologist Paul Ewald believes that Big Pharma is wrong about some very big issues. What's right? The leader in evolutionary medicine posits radical new approaches.

Carol Adelman

Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.

John E. Deasy

Superintendent-in-Residence of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems

Jeffrey Rosen

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

Steven Brill

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

Michael Thompson

Child & Family Psychologist

Melody Barnes

Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

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John Wood

Founder & Board Co-Chair of Room to Read; Former Microsoft Marketing Executive

Stephen Lewis

Celebrated Humanitarian and Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Tobias Wolff

Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Lawrence Krauss

Theoretical Physicist, Author & Professor

Joel Klein

Lawyer, Author & Former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education

Lloyd Howell

Lloyd W. Howell, Jr. serves as Booz Allen Hamilton?s U.S. Government Capability Development Leader for Organization and Strategy (OS) and focuses on the organization design, organizational efficiency, strategic human capital, learning systems, and change